I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:

At @Cardless, we want to build for the long term, so we decided to build microservices from scratch on day one. Take a look at how we built it and let us know your thoughts! medium.com/cardlesseng/bu…

It's been two week since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”? When Waze was acquired by Google, most of the people who know me did not believe I would las... 280/16,532 paygo.media/p/25171

So true

I started Sperta with Ming Fang in June. Today we are announcing our seed round from Kanyi Maqubela and Andy McLoughlin. Learn more about how Sperta differentiates: techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/ex-…

And an identity layer for single sign-on, KYC, and credibility. Get rid of password leaks, identity thefts, and trolls.

Do we work less on Fridays? Here is the proof from Sperta search ads performance; keywords are highly correlated to work.

Next up, SOC 2 Type 2!

Sperta is part of the core workflows of our customers, so we're serious about maintaining high availability and low latency. We are now promising 99.9% availability, and we also released three new features to improve decision quality and safety!

Undifferentiated heavy lifting in fintech matttbrown.com/notes/undiffer…

Processing financial data means no room for error, and we're excited to get SOC 2 Type 2 certified to give you more assurance.

Congrats Fuyao and the Sentio team!

To give you more confidence in the backtesting results, we designed it to be a distributed and scalable solution, which is especially important for imbalanced datasets in use cases such as fraud.

Sanity test, backtesting, and now experiments. No rules should be left untested.

The same decision platform, now serving PHI in addition to PII.

I'm blown away by the versatility of Notion again. We just launched our public docs with Notion and Super (custom domain, SEO) in hours instead of weeks. No-Code boosts productivity, and Sperta's customers agree too. Check out our results at docs.sperta.com

More data, better decisions

More precise than natural languages and easier than programming languages.

This cannot possibly make America great again.

I finally wrote another blogpost: ysymyth.github.io/The-Second-Hal… AI just keeps getting better over time, but NOW is a special moment that i call “the halftime”. Before it, training > eval. After it, eval > training. The reason: RL finally works. Lmk ur feedback so I’ll polish it.